Jeremy Siepmann: 6 books

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart war einer der größten und genialsten Komponisten, die es je gab. Er war ein Wunderkind: Bereits mit drei Jahren fing er an, Klavier zu spielen, mit vier Geige, mit fünfeinhalb gab er sein erstes öffentliches Konzert. Mit zwölf Jahren hatte Mozart drei Opern komponiert,...

Ludwig van Beethoven war eine musikalische Ausnahmeerscheinung - bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten wurde sein Werk gefeiert und stellt bis heute einen der größten Schätze der Musikgeschichte dar. Obwohl er in relativ bescheidenen Verhältnissen in Bonn aufwuchs, reifte er im Wien des ausgehenden 18....

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived. He is also one of the most misunderstood, as both man and musician, and looks destined to remain among the most controversial. Widely misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary and typecast as a crazy Russian genius, he was, in fact, a highly...

Beethoven bestrides the history of music like no other. Without him it would have been a very different story. This biographical portrait reveals a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a...

Chamber music is the most intimate, and arguably the most joyful and sociable, form of music-making in the world. It may also be the oldest, and its scope is all-embracing, ranging from infectious light entertainment to profound explorations of the human spirit, from boisterous humour to the outer reaches...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfilment, unexpected...